JPMorgan Chase
Sr Director of Security Engineering
$204K–$325K
Seattle, WA +3 · Director · Full-time · Posted Oct 9, 2026
- Location
- Seattle, WA
Plano, TX
Chicago, IL
Columbus, OH - Experience
- 15+ years; no alternatives stated.
- Education
- Formal training or certificate; no equivalent-experience alternative stated.
About the job
Leads and builds a centralized security and technology-controls engineering organization, overseeing its platforms, people, operating model, architecture, and allocation of engineering capacity across priorities.
What you'll do
- Direct engineering across threat modeling, architecture automation, test and quality platforms, and shared enablement; set technical architecture and delivery standards.
- Lead staffing, performance management, career development, and integration of previously separate engineering teams.
- Allocate capacity with product leadership, track delivery and quality outcomes, and uphold secure-by-design, data protection, and operational resilience.
What they ask for
- 15+ years in technology building and shipping software at enterprise scale, with formal training or a certificate.
- Experience leading software engineering teams, including performance management, staffing, and career development.
- Experience leading centralized/shared-services engineering and allocating finite capacity across competing priorities; track record of establishing or restructuring an engineering organization.
- Experience operating a platform used by other engineering teams, partnering with product management, and applying modern software delivery practices and secure-by-design principles.
Nice to have
- Experience with AI/ML platforms or production AI/LLM systems, security engineering, threat modeling, or architecture governance.
- Large-enterprise platform or security-tooling leadership, engineering-team integration, pooled capacity models, senior-talent development standards, or relevant credentials such as CISSP or CISM.
Pay
USD 232,750.00-$325,000.00 base salary (Seattle, WA); USD 204,250.00-$300,000.00 base salary (Chicago, IL)
Tools
SRE, DevOps, AI/ML, AI/LLM
AI focus
Prior platform delivery ideally incorporates AI/ML; preferred familiarity with production AI/LLM evaluation, guardrails, prompt/data security, and model governance.
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